Claims filed in connection with the 2014 water crisis settlement will continue to come in over the next few days following last week’s deadline. Charleston attorney Anthony Majestro told MetroNews they received more than 80,000 claims for the $151 million settlement between West Virginia American Water Company and Eastman Chemical following the 2014 Freedom Industries …
Centre in Cherokee County is suing scores of carpet and textile companies, as well as chemical manufacturers, that it says are responsible for polluting the city’s water. The suit, filed today in Cherokee County Circuit Court, says the companies put harmful chemical compounds into the raw water supply upstream of Centre Water’s intake site “in or near the City of Dalton, Ga.” The lawsuit is …
Lawrence Moody said he is satisfied that he and 3,550 other people are finally getting justice. “You just can’t do that to people,” the Washington County man said after DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours agreed to pay nearly $671 million to Mid-Ohio Valley people affected by a chemical used to make Teflon that causes cancer and a host of other health problems. The settlement was announced …
Arathy S Nair DuPont and Chemours Co have agreed to pay $671 million in cash to settle thousands of lawsuits involving a leak of a toxic chemical used to make Teflon, the companies said on Monday. Shares of Chemours jumped 13 percent. The company said it would pay half of the settlement, although liability for litigation connected with the chemical was passed onto it when DuPont spun it off in …
According to a class-action lawsuit, more than 200 people hit with “felony riot” charges following their mass arrest at Friday’s inauguration protest in Washington, D.C. were indiscriminately swept up “without warning and without any dispersal order” and attacked with chemical weapons, flash-bang grenades and batons. The crackdown, which was overseen by acting Metropolitan Police Department …
Two companies targeted in a class-action lawsuit in connection with the 2014 chemical spill and water emergency that impacted approximately 300,000 residents in parts of nine West Virginia counties have agreed to pay $151 million in damages. Details of the settlements by the plaintiffs with West Virginia American Water Company and Eastman Chemical were released Monday …
Eastman Chemical has settled a class action lawsuit over the contaminated drinking water supply that occurred in 2014. The lawyers for Eastman said that a preliminary settlement had been reached with the class. West Virginia American Water has still not settled claims against it, but the trial was pushed back one more day to try and reach an agreement, according to U.S. District …
A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit related to the Kanawha Valley water crisis back in 2014. That’s when there was a chemical spill at Freedom Industries in Charleston that impacted drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people in nine counties. A class action lawsuit was filed against Eastman Chemical and West Virginia American Water after …
A group of employees and students at two of the borough’s schools have filed a lawsuit against PBF Energy refinery alleging the company was negligent last year, allowing them to breathe a toxic chemical, according to a Courier Post report. Multiple individuals were sent to local hospitals in March 2015 when a broken seal on a PBF tank caused the odor of Naphtha, a liquid hydrocarbon …
A federal jury in Columbus says DuPont should pay 500 thousand dollars in punitive damages to an Ohio man in a chemical illness lawsuit. Earlier this week, the same jury ruled a chemical used by DuPont at its Washington Works plant in West Virginia, C8, caused the man to get cancer and awarded him 5.1 million dollars. A DuPont spokesperson says the verdict will be appealed, and jurors were …